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The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry is pleased to open applications for our fellowship program for tenured Emory faculty. The program will host up to five fellows (including one non-ECAS fellow) whose work advances our 2026-27 theme, _habitat_ . Fellows will be released from their university teaching and service commitments for the academic year, with the support and approval of their respective department chair/program director and dean.

All faculty fellows enjoy an office at the Fox Center, participate in a weekly works-in-progress seminar, attend thematic programming, and participate in the life of the Center. Fellowships run from August 1, 2026, to May 31, 2027, and provide an additional $3,000 in research funds.

We invite applications from tenured faculty in any humanistic discipline who are eager to be part of a community of scholars engaged in innovative and interdisciplinary research and conversations around our 2026-27 theme, _habitat_ . The application deadline for applicants to submit their materials is **December 8, 2025, at 11.59 PM ET** . The deadline for receipt of letters of recommendation is **December 12, 2025, at 11.59 PM ET** .

_habitat_

The concept of _habitat_ connotes both a physical place for living and the necessary conditions for thriving. Heidegger famously argued that to be human is to dwell. But what does it mean to dwell amidst environmental precarity, political displacement, and technological transformation? How have human relationships with the places we inhabit been experienced, negotiated, and imagined across different periods and geographies? How have we made sense of our surroundings and, in turn, formed our notions of home?

Human activity has long left its marks on our world—from the deforestation of medieval Europe to the sweeping planetary impacts of industrialization. At the same time, floods, wildfires, and earthquakes remind us that we are subject to forces beyond our control. As dwellers on Earth, we live not only among built structures and political borders, but also within multispecies and geological systems whose scales of time and complexity often exceed our comprehension. Poet Joy Harjo implores us to “remember the earth whose skin you are.” Yet while we are imbricated in these systems, we are also storytellers and meaning-makers, describing, contesting, and reimagining the conditions of our existence.

We anticipate that our Fellows will approach the concept of _habitat_ through diverse lenses on the human experience, including, but not limited to, environmental humanities, science and technology studies, Indigenous and postcolonial studies, and urban studies. Projects may examine moments of rupture and reconfiguration, ecological interdependence, forced migration, multispecies coexistence, or the politics of shelter and space in industrial and post-industrial environments. This year’s theme invites inquiry into how we dwell—and what it might mean to dwell well—in a shared and uncertain world.

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